Alternating-current motor.



H. WEICHSEL.

ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 12. 195- Patented Feb. 6,1917.

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ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR.

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Be it known that I, HANS residsubject of the Emperor of Germany, ing at souri, United States of America, have invented a certain new and useful Alternating- Current Motor, of which the following 1s such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference bein had to the accompanying drawings, orming part. of this specification.

' My invention relates more particularly to single-phase asynchronous induction moshunt characteristic and the object of the invention is to produce a machine of this type which will start with a powerful torque, operate at a plurality of speeds, and yet be of cheap and efficient construction.

In carrying out my invention, I make use of a stator provided with means for changing the number of poles and of a rotor carrying a commuted winding adapted to cooperate with brushes resting on the commutator, and also of means for totall shortcircuiting the commuted winding. prefer to so select the step or pitch of the commuted winding that it will permit the machine to start as a commutator motor, with the stator connected to produce the largest number of poles for which themachine is designed, and, at the same time, be capable of cooperating, after said commuted windmg is totally short-circuited, with any of the numbers of poles which the stator can produce.

My referred mode of operatingthe machine 1s to cause the same to run up to its lowest speed as a commutator motor and with the largest number of poles for which the stator is designed, and then to reach the higher speeds at which the machine is capable of running, on a commutatorless induction motor erformance, or, in other ,words, with tota ly short-circuited rotor and induction motor characteristics.

, My invention will be better understod by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 diagrammatically indicates the stator and rotor windings, while Fig. 2 outlines the mechanical construction of the machine and particularly one form of short s ecification of man mm. Application filed April 18, 1915. Serial No. 30,091.

the city of St. Louis, State of Misalon Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

circuiting device that may be used in connection with the rotor winding.

Referring to Fig. 1,,2 is a stator. provided with the slots 3 to 10 inclusive and carrying a 4-pole winding 11 comprising four coils, each spanning two teeth and connected in series between the terminals 27 and 29, and also an 8- ole winding 12, comprising eight coils eac h spanning one tooth and connected in series between the terminals 26 and 28. The 2-pole switch 30 makes it possible forthe mains 31, 32 to be connected either to the 4-pole or to the 8-pole stator winding. In the vfigure, these mains are connectedto the 8-pole winding.

The rotor 13 carries a number of conductors, such as 14, 15, preferably located in slots or holes within the iron laminations and connected to a commutator16. The rotor winding is preferably of the parallel or lap type, as shown in Fig. 1, and its step the rotor, to the conductor 14, and along the full line representing the front connections of the rotor, to the commutator segment adjacent to the one to which the conductor 15 is connected. In the example shown, the motor is arranged to start as a series induction' machine with rotor excitation, fre-" quently referred to as a repulsion motor, and the commuted rotor winding is, therefore, short-circuited by means of brushes axes displaced. from the axes of the S-po e magnetization produced by the stator. Because the rotor winding is of the parallel, and not of the series type, a brush is provided for each of the eight poles produced by the stator. Brushes"o the same polarity, such as 17, 19, 21 and 23 are connected to each other and also to the brushes of opposite polarity, 18, 20, 22 and 24.

The system of windings described coopertrollingdevice illustrated in Fig. 2, which against a nut lfi screwed on the s also shows apossible general arrangement of a machine of this kind. The shaft 38 carries the rotor'13 and is supported in bearings 36 and 37 attached toend plates 34, 35, centered on a frame 33 supporting the stator laminations 2, within which are embedded the stator windings 11, 12. The commutator 16 is of the vertical tace type and is held in a casting 46 attached to the spider 39 keyed to the shaft and supporting the rotor laminations-13. This casting 46 carries an annular conducting sleeve 48, bored out to the same inner diameter as the commutator 16 but normally insulated from the latter. @ne of the brushes 20 cooperatina' with the commutator 16, is shown in this gore, and is held in contact with the vertical "face of the commutator loy means of a spring controlled clamp provided with a projection or nose 5O reaching through a slot 52 provided in the brush holder support 51. A sleeve 43, capable of longitudinal motion along the shaft 38, carries a large number of loosely mounted short-circuiting elements d7 located in a groove provided insaid sleeve and nor: mally so positioned that they can only make contact with the conductive sleeve 48 but not with the commutator 16. This sleeve and the short-circuiting elements 4:7 are held in this position by means of a coil spring at refilling a 38 and by means of which thetension of thd spring t t can be adjusted. The sleeve 43 and the short-circuiting" elements 47 are also under the control of weishts l1 hinged on pins 40 attached to the sp'1der39, the movement'ot said weights bein transmitted to the sleeve 43 by means of rods 42 loosely connected to the weights 4-1 by means of pins 53.

The operation of a vice shown in Fig. 2, is somewhat as follows:

As long as the spring 44 is'in control of the sleeve 43, the relative positions at the inner face of the commutator 16, the inner face of the conducting sleeve 48 insulated from the short-circuitina' de-' gal force which tends to throw the elements 47 out of the groove in the sleeve 43in which they are located and presses them hard against the inner commutator face and the tube 48, thus totally short-circuiting all the 7o commutator segments and, therefore, the commuted rotor winding This same move ment of the sleeve 43 forces the projection 49 thereof into engagement with the nose 50 of the spring-controlled clamp holding the brush in contact with the vertical commutator face, pushes this nose upward and to the lett,.or away from the commutator, and thus also breaks contact between "the brushes and the commutator.

The mode ofoperation of the machine as a whole, is as follows:

The spring 44: and the weights at are so adjusted that the commuted winding will be manner now wellunderstood and, as soon as' its speed reaches the neighborhood of the synchronous corresponding to the number of poles for which the stator is connected, the short-circuitingdevice will operate to convert the commuted winding into a short-circuited pole'winding and force theibrushes oif the commutator face. In order to reach a that commutator, and ot the short-circuiting elements 47, are as shown'in the figure. But as soon as the rotor has reached a suficient speed, the weights ll are thrown outward, away from the center of the shatt, lay centrifugal force, and, 'since'jthey pivot on the pins 40, they forcathe-ntdcffitrom right to left in a direction o poses-g to the efilort ex l'ted lay the lming" 14."! As "soon as this spzimg is overpowered, thew-sleeve t3 and W1 to the left and into suchffa 1 position as to make electrical connectionfbetweenfthe inner" face of the commutator and' jthe inner face of the conducting tuhe t8,+goodf contact between the shiort-circuiting' elements t7,

the tuhe and the-inner taco otthe commutator losing, in part, secured the centrifuhigher speed, it is necessary to throw the switch 30 tromthe points. 26, 28 to points 2?, 29, thus producing four instead of eight stator poles and causing the motor to reach its higher speed without the cohperation of the commutator 16 but with a totall shortcircuited rotor and on a pure induction motor performance. When it is desired to drop from the higherto the lower speed, it

is convenientto interrupt ,the'stator circuits for a time suficiene-tefallow'the speed to reach the neighborhood of the synchronous corresponding" to the higher number of poleaandthen to close'the statorswitch in such a way as to produce that higher numher otpoles.

invention, 1 have only shown. eight stator it the short-circuitmgfhlements 47 move ranged asto be capable and sixteen rotor slots It is obvious that, in practice, the number of slots in both members should be considerably larger. It is also well understood that the stator may he provided with a single winding, so erof successively producmg difierent numhersofypoles 'b'y reor- %$fiain the connections o}f"its elements l 'le have illustrated my invention as chine and may be applied to a motor, the

stator of which is adapted to produce more than two sets of poles. In such a case, I

still prefer to so select the step of my commuted winding as to make it larger than the step of the largest number of poles and smaller than the step of the smallest number of poles for which the stator is wound, or which the stator may produce. While it is convenient to make provision for withdrawing the brushes from contact with the commutator after the rotor winding has been short-circuited, yet it is by no means necessary to do so. Because of the small number of commutator segments shown in Fig. 1, the drawing would indicate that, at

times, the rotor winding is totally short-circuited by the brushes, but it will be understood that'this condition will not occur in practice since a much greater number of commutator segments per pole will beused. Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent of the United States is: p

1. In an alternating current motor, the

combination of means for successively producing difierent numbers of stator poles, a rotor provided with a commuted winding having a pitch greater than the pitch of the largest number of stator oles available and smaller than the pitch 0 the smallest number of stator poles available, and means for 'short-circuiting the commuted winding to render it inductively responsive to more than one number of stator poles, said means being inoperative at starting.

2. In an' alternating current motor, the combination of means for successively pro-v ducing different numbers of stator poles, a rotor provided with a commuted winding having a pitch greater than the pitch of the largest number of stator poles available and smaller than the pitch of the smallest number of stator poles available, and means for inter-connecting all of the elements of the commuted winding when a desired speed is attained.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

HANS WEICHSEL. [11.8.]

Witnesses CATHERINE Sorrmss, HARRY HENZE. 

